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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK R. DECK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO PRAHAR & BROTHER, OF SAME PLACE.

LOCK'FOR THE FRAMES OF BAGS, PURSES, AND POCKET-BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,701, dated November 22, 1892.

Application filed February 3, 1892. Serial No. 420,147. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern- Be it known that I, FREDERICK R. DECK, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Lock for the Frames of Bags, Purses, and Pocket-Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in locks for the frames of bags, purses, or pocketbooks, and especially to an improvement in thelocks of what is known as double frames for double pockets; and the object of the invention is to providea lock for both sections of the frame, which lock will be provided with a single spindle and be acted upon bya single spring; and a further object of the invention is to so construct the lock that the leaves thereof will be located in transverse alignment, and although both leaves are controlled by the same spindle and spring each leaf may be operated independently.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a double frame having the improved lock applied thereto, the frame being illustrated as applied to a purse. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the frame and the lock, one of the pockets or sections of the frame being illustrated as open and the other as closed. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section through that portion of the frame to which the lock is directly applied, the said section being taken also centrally through the look. Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken practically on the line 4 4 of. Figs. 1 and 3, and Fig. 5 is a similar section taken practically on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

The look A is located, preferably, at the upper central portion of the central member A of the frame, and the lock consists of two leaves 10 andl 1, placed back to back, the said leaves at their inner or rear edges being provided with knuckles 12, which knuckles interlock and are arranged to receive a single pivot-pin 13, as is best shown in Fig. 3. Both leaves of the lock are pivoted upon this pin and both of the leaves are held in a closed positionthat is, laterally at a right angle to the sides of the main section A of the frame by a single spring 14, the said spring being preferably coiled around the pivot-pin 13 in a central position between the leaves, the ends of the spring having bearing against the under faces of the leaves and in order that the ends of the spring may exert downward tension upon the leaves the outer or free solid edges of-the leaves are bent upon themselves downward and inward, as illustrated at a, and the extremities of the spring rest upon these inward extensions. The extensions a of the leaves are also provided in their edges at or near their centers with a cavity or recess 15.

The frame may be of any suitable or approved construction. The main section A of the frame, as illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, consists of an outer shell 17 struck up at its center, and a clamping-shell 18, riveted or otherwise attached to the outer shell, the clamping-shell being adapted to embrace the material from which the pockets are to be made bound by the frame, and the lock is lo cated within the struck-up shell 17 of the frame, as shown in Fig. 3, in such manner that the leaves of the lock Will extend outward beyond opposite sides of the shell. The main section A of the frame to which the lock is secured has pivoted at its ends links 19 and 20, and said linksin their turn at their lower extremities are pivotally connected with the side sections 13 and B of the frame, the said side sections being ordinarily provided upon their upper surfaces with pins 21, which pins are adapted when the side sections of the frame are closed against the main or central section to pass through the recesses 15 in the leaves to an engagement with the downwardly-bent portions a thereof, and in this operator may desire. The lock when so applied to a frame can be constructed much more economiaally than locks heretofore employed in connection with double frames; and, furthermore, the leaves, being placed one opposite the other, are capable of being more handily manipulated than leaves upon ordinary frames.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A lock for the frames of bags, purses, pocket-books, and the like articles, co1nprising two leaves placed back to back and provided with interlocking knuckles,apivot-pin passed through the knuckles of both leaves, and a spring coiled upon the pivot-pin, the

FREDERICK R. DECK.

Witnesses:

PHILIP KOMPFF, J r., F. SCHENCK. 

